What I Watched -- Django Unchained

This post is way overdue - I saw Django with T, et al., almost two weeks ago!  Anyway, here's the brief rundown:

It's definitely a Quentin Tarantino flick.  There is blood and gore to excess, so much at some points that it's almost comical.  But there's something unsettling about it, aside from just the visuals - like the movie takes itself too seriously to be satire, but not seriously enough to be dramatic.  It's in a weird middle ground.

The main players were great - Jamie Foxx as Django, Christoph Waltz as Dr. King Schultz, Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie, and Samuel L. Jackson as Stephen.  Stephen was a particularly interesting character, perhaps the most racist one in the whole film, which I did not expect after the big kerfuffle over the use of the n-word by all the white folks.  Stephen is the butler of Calvin Candie, a wealthy plantation owner.  He works in the house, lives a nice life, and despises the slaves - despite the fact that he is one.  He's having an identity problem.

Bottom line: entertaining, bloody, Tarantino.  If you like his other stuff, you'll be okay with this too.